Human Strategies in Complexity
| Project-coordination: | Institute for Design and Technology Assessment, Vienna University of Technology |
| Project Partners: | Institute for Design and Technology Assessment, Vienna University of Technology IAG Philosophische Grundlagenprobleme, Fachgruppe Philosophie, University of Kassel Chair for Philosophy and Methodology of Science, Shevchenko University Kiev Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow |
| Duration: | June 2001 - June 2004 |
| Number of Project Members: | 21 |
| Funding: |
International Association for the Promotion of Co-Operation with Scientists from the New Independent States of the Former Soviet Union (INTAS); Austrian Ministry for Education, Science and Culture |
| Website: | http://www.self-organization.org |
| Research Topics: |
With research about phenomena of self-organisation a new scientific paradigm emerged during the second half of the 20th century. As a result assumptions of the scientific world view concerning formalisation, forcecasting and steering of processes have been questioned. There is not yet a philosophical foundation of the new paradigm, the existing approaches of self-organisation are scatterd and have not been unified. The aim of the project "Human Strategies in Complexity" is a contribution to the philosophical foundations of a unified theory of self-organisation. Questions that are especially treated are: How does the complex nature of the world confine the forcecasting of a system's development? How can the concept of information be reinterpreted within the perspective of evolutionary systems theory, i.e. how can the philosophical foundations of the theory of self-organisation be utilised in order to create a Unified Theory of Self-Organisation? Which possibilities of reflexive context steering and design are there within the framework of the transition of the world society towards a global information society? |